GNC Ultra Mega® Green Women's Active Vitapak® Program offers a convenient, green foods enhanced nutritional program that combines essential vitamins and minerals with plant and whole food based ingredients to support the optimal health of active women. Emerging research suggests that including green foods based ingredients to support overall wellness. This nutrient-dense whole food enhanced multivitamin formula has been designed to supply energizing and beauty-enhancing nutrient for physically active women.

Ultra Mega® Green Women's Multivitamin- A green foods multivitamin designed specifically for women. This formula provides a superior blend of vitamins and minerals combined with essential antioxidants, enzymes, and phytonutrients found in green foods to help women achieve optimal health. It also provides 1,600 IU of vitamin D-3 to support breast and bone health.* This premium multivitamin formula also includes a B vitamin complex to support energy production, as well as antioxidants for protection from harmful free radicals that can destroy healthy cells.*

Energy Formula- An energy and metabolism blend including cocoa seed extract, capsicum seed, black pepper extract and natural sources of caffeine. This herbal formula is designed to help boost energy metabolism, plus it helps support calorie burning and improved performance.*

CLA- A premium, concentrated form of clinically studied CLA to help fuel energy and fat metabolism.* CLA is a healthy source of natural energy.*

Beauty Blend- Provides a premium beauty blend to promote healthy hair, skin and nails and support skin hydration.* Includes key nutrients such as biotin, collagen, amino acids L-cysteine and L-methionine, and Lutemax 2020™ lutein to nourish beauty from within*

* These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

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As a dietary supplement, take contents of one pack of daily with food.

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What Makes a Good Multivitamin?

Multiples are available as a powder inside a shell capsule, as a liquid inside a soft-gelatin capsule, or hard-pressed as tablets that may be chewed or swallowed

Designed for people whose diets don't meet all their nutritional needs, multiple vitamin-mineral supplements ("multivitamins") are convenient nutrient combinations, usually taken one to six times per day. While it's generally agreed that a healthy diet is the best foundation for health, everyday life makes that goal challenging for many people. So, some people supplement in hope of preventing disease-causing deficiencies and providing higher nutrient amounts than they can get through diet alone, which may help prevent or manage certain diseases.

Who decides how much is enough?

Recommended dietary allowances have been developed by a scientific panel to broadly cover healthy people of any age or gender. Used to design mass food programs, such as for the armed forces and food relief/ration programs, RDA's were the basis for the Reference Daily Intake (RDI) values, which the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) uses to create the Daily Value (DV) packaging labels.

Many multivitamins contain at least 100% of RDA recommendations. However, decades of research on human nutrition has led many researchers and healthcare professionals to conclude that a "one-size-fits-all" approach does not address the increased need for certain nutrients by people who are not healthy or by those at increased risk of developing various diseases due to genetics or lifestyle habits. The RDA does account for this increased need in certain cases such as, vitamin C for smokers, or vitamin D for seniors. Abundant research also suggests therapeutic benefits to supplementing with certain nutrients, even when eating a healthful diet.

What's the best multivitamin for me?

Multiples are available as a powder inside a hard-shell pull-apart capsule, as a liquid inside a soft-gelatin capsule, or hard-pressed as tablets that may be chewed or swallowed. Common products on the market include:

Low-potency/one-a-day multiples: These mixtures often contain 100% of the daily requirements for most vitamins and some minerals that many people require. However, they do not provide enough to make up for deficiencies or other therapeutic amounts. For example, people eating a Western diet may be deficient in minerals such as calcium and magnesium, which one-a-days may not help correct.

High-potency multiples: These mixtures may provide higher amounts of desired nutrients sometimes designed to support particular health goals, such as heart health. To evenly distribute nutrition to the body, these are convenient combination products usually designed to be taken as caplets or tablets in divided doses, depending on the formula.

Timed-release: Some healthcare professionals assume that releasing vitamins and minerals slowly into the body over a period of time is better than releasing them all at once. However, except for some studies showing better absorption of time-released vitamin C, this assumption has not been well studied and some concerns have been raised about the safety of the chemical agents used to cause the timed release.

Vegetarian: Most capsules are made from animal gelatin, so vegetarians need to carefully read supplement labels to ensure they are getting a vegetarian product.

What's the best way to take a multi?

The best time to take most supplements is with meals, to avoid stomach upset they sometimes cause and to help the body better absorb the nutrients.

Capsules vs. tablets: Occasionally B vitamins react with a product's other ingredients, especially when exposed to moisture or heat; this can cause discoloration and a bad smell. While the multiple is still safe and effective, the smell is off-putting and usually not very well tolerated. Liquid multiples in a soft-gel capsule-or tablets or capsules that are kept dry and cool-do not have this problem. Capsules are usually smoother than tablets, so some people find them easier to swallow. Properly made tablets and capsules will dissolve readily in the stomach, allowing the nutrients to be absorbed.

Chewables: Multiples do not taste very good and to make them palatable to both children and adults, bad-tasting ingredients are reduced or eliminated and the rest are masked with a sweetener (sometimes more sweetener than any other ingredient). Debates continue, but healthcare professionals generally recommend avoiding regular consumption of both artificial sweeteners like aspartame (NutraSweet(R)) and sugars. (Xylitol, a natural sugar, does not cause tooth decay or other known problems but is rarely used in chewables because it is relatively expensive.) Chewable vitamin C products should contain buffered vitamin C, rather than the acidic form (ascorbic acid), to avoid damaging tooth enamel.

Does a multiple ensure good nutrition?

Nothing beats a nutrient-rich, whole foods diet to as a foundation for good nutrition, and quality supplements may help support that goal.

Are multiples good for kids?

While a whole food diet is the preferable route, a high-quality multivitamin might be recommended for children eating an unbalanced diet. In one double-blind trial, schoolchildren received a daily low-potency vitamin-mineral tablet for three months that contained 50% of the RDA for most essential vitamins and the minerals. About 20% of participants (working class, primarily Hispanic, children, aged 6 to 12) experienced dramatic gains in certain measures of IQ, possibly due to correction of specific nutrient deficiencies in these children. However, it was not possible in this study to identify which nutrients caused the improvement.

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I am NOT a vitamin taker and do not like huge pills. But, I knew that I needed to start taking a multivitamin to better my health. This multipack has been amazing. Its helped with my energy levels, mood has been better, I have loss weight, and all my body just feels better. I would and have recommended theses to my friends. I also, bought my hubby the ones for men.

I love this Vitapak program from GNC. I rotate daily between this and the regular Ultra Mega Green Vitapak. I take them before bed with a small glass of orange juice and it never upsets my stomach or makes me feel nauseous. I've taken for over 6 months now and feel great. I try to purchase whenever GNC has their BOGO sales.

I exercise at least 5x a week. I find that this product helps boost my metabolsim, energy level and it is easy on my stomach. Some of the pills don't taste that great but the benefits outweigh the taste.

I have been taking this product for a while and absolutely love it! My GNC sells outof them quickly so I usually grab two boxes at a time. No side effects for me. Love that it combines all these great products in one pack. Give it a try!

I was skeptical when I first bought this vitapack, but after using it for a month, I can feel a dramatic difference in my energy level when I don't take my vitapack. I have so much more energy! I'm a stay at home mom. I spend a lot of time taking care of my baby, keeping up the housework, and grocery shopping. These aren't just for the women who can make it to the gym. Sometimes I have a hard time opening the packet, but that's what they make scissors for.

I was looking for a good vitamin with appetite suppressant that wouldn't make me too jittery or upset my stomach. This was recommended at the store. While it did not make me jittery or upset my stomach, and was easy to digest, it did zero for appetite control. I liked that it was "natural", but it wasn't effective for what I needed. Returned them.

In the past I tried the women's "be-WHOLESOME™" vitapak but found the fish oil pills upset my stomach so I switched to just taking a multivitamin, beauty, and CLA supplement daily. Then this vitapak came out that combined all 3 things I was already taking, so it was very convenient! And much easier than buying them separately. No more stomach problems, so I honestly could not recommend this enough!